WHY SHOULD I DO THE DISC PUMP EXERCISES? In a word…EFFICIENCY. Everything has its value. Imagine that everything that touches your life has a sticky note attached to it with a number from 1 to 10, connoting its value. Your grandchild is a 10. The neighbor’s yapping dog in the middle of the night a 0. What about your car? Your favorite Christmas ornament? Your cell phone? Your spouse? Your chiropractor? All 10’s right? What about your health? 10. What about your time? 10. I’m the same as you, so as I have been refining The Lindwall Method over the years I have always looked to balance my time and my health. I say “my” time and “my” health because I am my first patient. I am the Guiney pig. I only pass on to you, my second but vastly more important patient, what I have first approved for myself, my own spine, my own health. If I need it so do you. If I don’t need it neither do you. Why would I give you something that I don’t need? That would be a waste of your time. I don’t like to waste my time so I won’t waste yours. It’s about EFFICIENCY… and NECESSITY. What’s necessary for your spine? Adjustments. Disc Pump Exercises. Deep tissue therapy. SO, AGAIN, WHY SHOULD I DO THE DISC PUMP EXERCISES? 1)HYDRATION – The discs in your spine have no blood supply, no blood vessels feeding them food, water, and oxygen. They rely completely upon the vertebrae above and below to feed them passively through diffusion, through a process called imbibition, or what I call the Disc Pump. When the joint moves, nutrients are pumped from the bone to the disc, keeping the disc healthy and hydrated, full of water. It works like pumping water from a well. You have to pump the well handle all the way up and all the way down, over and over again, to get the water flowing. 2)KEEP WHAT YOU GOT – If you already have a disc or two degenerating, you know what it looks like on x-ray. You know how serious it is. If you don’t have one yet, you likely will someday, especially if you don’t take care of them. Discs are made of cartilage and adult humans don’t make cartilage. So the amount of cartilage that you have right now while you are reading this is the most you will ever have. When you lose it you will never get what you lost back, no matter what supplements you take. 3)MOTION – When I make an adjustment, I am slowly, one adjustment at a time, restoring motion to a fixated joint in your spine. That’s my job. Your job is to reinforce my job. By doing the exercises you help to make my job last longer. 4)INFLAMMATION – When the bones move better, the inflammation goes away faster, stays away longer, feels better. 5)SCAR TISSUE – You help to keep the all-damaging scar tissue from returning to your spinal joints.All in all, you get through Intensive Care faster, through Reconstructive Care faster, and into the least expensive Wellness Care fastest. You save time, health, and money. That’s why.

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Yolanda wrote:

I used to suffer severe headaches and migraines on a daily basis, usually all day. I managed to work in an office because I had to. When I went home at the end of the day I would often close the shades and go to bed. I could not plan weekend events because I simply never knew how I was going to feel tomorrow. If there were a special event such as a birthday or wedding, I would begin to medicate myself two weeks in advance to give myself the best chance of making the event. Friends and fellow church-goers had been trying to get me to see Dr. Rick for some time before I finally gave in. Looking back, I don’t know why I waited. Within a month, I was headache free. I couldn’t remember what it was like to not feel pain. I could do whatever I wanted and not live in fear of the headache. This was a miracle for me, but the story does not end here. An opportunity came up for us to adopt a newborn baby girl not long after I began chiropractic care. This baby was particularly important to me and my husband because her mother is a relative. Tragically, her mother was also a drug user and did drugs during her pregnancy. If we could not adopt the baby she would have been put into the foster system since the biological mother was incapable of raising her. To keep a long story short, we did adopt her and she is doing fantastically. There is no sign of any effect of the drugs on her as of yet, and with God’s help, there never will be. We think that is because of the vast amounts of love and attention she gets from us, her real mommy and daddy. What does this have to do with chiropractic? The reality is that without chiropractic, I would still be nearly an invalid with headaches. I COULD NOT HAVE TAKEN CARE OF AN INFANT OR RAISED A YOUNG CHILD. THEREFORE, SHE WOULD NOT HAVE ANY OF THE OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE THAT MY HUSBAND AND I WILL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR HER. MY DAUGHTER’S LIFE IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE SOMEBODY MADE ME GO TO A CHIROPRACTOR. You need to tell everyone you know what you know about chiropractic. Who knows who’s life you will change too.

Andrew's mother, Barbara, wrote:

Hello, My name is Andrew and I am a happy, healthy one year old. But I wasn’t so happy or healthy when I first met Dr. Rick a few months ago. I had been having problems with my ears for four months, I couldn’t sleep at night and I was miserable. We’d been to the doctor lots of times but nothing was helping. In fact, all the medicines the doctor had tried seemed to make me worse instead of better! Both the regular doctor and the Ear-Nose and Throat doctor said that if the antibiotics didn’t work, then they’d just have to put tubes in. Now my Mom and dad weren’t about to let them do surgery on me, especially since they had been reading and learned that tubes can cause more problems than they solve. My mom and dad did a lot of praying. Then my mom heard that sometimes babies who have a traumatic birth like mine have ear trouble. You see when I was born they used a vacuum extractor and forceps to pull me out. I guess all that yanking on my head, hurt my neck. She also heard that chiropractic care can be the answer. Now she was skeptical because she couldn’t imagine a chiropractor helping ear infections!?! But at that point she was willing to try anything!! Happily, a few weeks of adjustments and my ears were all cleared up. In addition, I no longer had a stiff neck or shoulders and my whole personality was happier. I have to tell all babies who have ear troubles, don’t let them give you tubes until you at least try chiropractic care first. After all, it can’t hurt and if you’re like me, you could be perfectly well with no drugs and no surgery. In my family, we thank God for Dr. Rick, because I feel better, my mom and dad are happier and sometimes, I even sleep through the night.